Less than 2 months after Brent passed on and the band “can’t stop for nothing.” To be able to go into a thick environment like Philly and play this well for 3 nights is incredible to me.

Jerry's handsome cabin boy during space ez highlight into tasty Morning Dew... High Time and a slinky Althea in Set 1 other points of interest. worthy show in worthiest of venues

I sang a little while and then flew on.

this one is definitely one of my favorites from Fall 90 and even all of 90. the Dew just drips with feeling heart and some tight playing. The whole show is well-played The Let It Grow rocks and the U.J.B. is killer. All these shows just after Brent died were kinda special Jerry really seemed all emotional and was spot on on most nights.Even the JGB show at Shoreline was smoking
anyway great show real decent recording

Jerry is midi crazy on space but at 8 min he suddenly starts playing either "Handsome Cabin Boy" or "Two Soldiers". same tune basically. any way thats a note worthy intro to "Morning Dew"!

A Philly classic, 5 stars, the let it grow was a fuckin jam, since Philly is my backyard I feel so at home that I waltzed to bout 8 rows from stage the floor was absolutely racious.It felt like I was being hit with raindrops but it was many peoples sweat flying off of their hair from boogie in our asses off. I had to meander up after let it grow to the hall by the metal doors the guards would open in between sets. I can't fathom this show being OK, OK is like for if someone asks u if they can hit your j.
And the forgotten/wrong words big fucking deal how many times have we all witnessed that, I remember it happening frequently. So what. The dew was among the best I remember
And Philly is Philly man, its a tough ass rough and tumble city and so are its inhabitants. If I had a nickel for every fight, dirty deeds, drunks,stoners,acid heads on bad trips, donnybrooks, naked people, cops literally fighting with the Philly nitrous vending crews I saw I'd have a penthouse on park place. I myself am down with all heads east and west, but I'm sure you noticed that the west coast heads were super kind and willing to let the dead decide what they were going to play. Us east coast fuckers carry on like drunk in sailors on leave. Hell I heard a guy one time at msg screaming cosmic Charlie over and over funny part was it was a good 20 min before show and he made his buddies start hollering it, and boy did they fuckin make a ton of uncoordinated drunken loudness till showtime.
I don't think the heads in Oakland would ever consider doin it.
Spectrum to me is an all time great spot to see the boys.
53 shows total, saw the banner many many times. If I wasn't scared of heights I would of shimmied up in the rafters and took that bitch. Good karma to all the G D family and continued success to everyone, thanks for putting this up

Highlights: Let It Grow, Morning Dew

picture perfect memory of this one i was young /always forgetting that i forgot that iforgot where i hid my reefer always turning up inbad places like the local police department my father waltzed into with 4 oz of yummy bricked up cucamonga pride asking if they could tell him what it was !!!!!!yikes!!!!!!the other poster speaking of the shows many doses was due in part to large shipment of paper lsd that was mistreated causing folks to puke blood , that comma is for the geeks who started blowing each other because i didnt use enough punctuation use it as often as you like.as for philly having an edge mik jagger said it best if you want to know if you are hot or you are not philly will let you know they let you know when your on and they sure let you know when their off. havent listened to this since that nite i remember being really impressed with the first set on the first night of this run when they opened with shake>lrr>peg>o as they had the oct 89 fall run opener {awesome tour}looking forward to hearing it never used another drug or drank a beer ever since at he dead shows best thing ever happened to me NO DOPE TO DANCE peace the energy from 89 1st half of 90 did carry threw the fall tour of 90 either that or they let vince turn on his keyboard after this tour

It's okay. But in addition to the goofs noted in other reviews, they screwed up the vocals in UJB.

On the other hand, the space contains a jam on an old whaling chantey. If that's not amusing, I don't know what is.

No mention of the opening Half-Step?
This is an good sounding recording, and a prime version of a favorite song o' mine. Some of the best couplets in all of American literature, IMHO :)>> "IF ALL YOU GOT TO LIVE FOR IS WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND, GET YOURSELF A POWDER CHARGE AND SEAL THAT SILVER MINE!" / "I LOST MY BOOTS IN TRANSIT, BABE, A PILE OF SMOKIN' LEATHER; NAILED A RETREAD TO MY FEET AND PRAYED FOR BETTER WEATHER" That's right. This song has gotten me through many rough patches. Beautiful!

Played through a Yamaha receiver w/direct source and two Paradigm Monitor 9 speakers. 1st set is a mess basically. Set list is fine but execution is bad. This is ironic because the band feels like they want to be good this night. I think they might feel a little embarrassed actually. Jerry bailing out Weir during "Masterpeice" is hilarious, as Weir forgets an entire verse. It's not all bad. MHS, TLEO, and LIG are all decent. Set 2 here is actually as good as you're going to find this year. Solid IKO, and a great Playin w/ nice improvisational jamming afore and aft. Crazy Fingers is nice w/ a solid Jer solo. The Dead were kind of effects crazy this year and the result is a really creepy space that actually sounds like a B horror movie. It acually creeped me out. The Morning Dew is serious and ripping with Jerry pulling out all the stops, emotional because of Brent's passing this year. These shows are interesting because the band is in as big a transition as they ever were after that. Vince doesn't quite do it for me here. However, in retrospect, this might be one the best concerts I ever caught of the Dead. My first was 4/8/85 at the same venue. That show had its virtues and I always assumed it was way better. But actually this is some serious Dead here. The tempo of the concert is slower and more deliberate here and I actually think this blows that earlier concert away. Great sound quality throughout. What makes this poignant is that this may be the beginning of the end for this band. Maybe some of the last decent playing of their career. Great 2nd set.

This show is pretty dang good. The Althea>Let it grow is an all time favorite, for both versions true stand outs. Bobby's guitar effects and phil's deep bass makes these versions quite special

Another fine piece by C. M. . Love the Space->Two Soldiers Jam->Morning Dew,IMHO best show of the '90 Philly run,though it did ugly in the lot after this show....Alot of OD'ers,one guy had to be taken out by ambulance after failing to revive when a huge cooler of ice and water was dumped down his pants...That's when the heat started booting us out,but hey that's Philly for ya,always had an edge to it....